If you are familiar with Cracker Candy, also known as Saltine Cracker Toffee, Kix Cereal Toffee Bark might look familiar. It's a sweet-and-salty candy/cookie hybrid made with buttery toffee, melted chocolate and crisp Kix cereal instead of crackers.
Chocolate Kix Cereal Toffee Bark
The Kix stay light and crunchy under the rich toffee coating, giving the bark a texture that's somewhere between caramel corn, toffee bark and a crispy cookie. It's easy to make, great for gifting and perfect when you want something nostalgic, crunchy and just a little over-the-top.
How to Make It
So just like with Cracker Candy, you do the following:
- Preheat the oven to 350F. This recipe requires a very short bake time.
- Spread about 3 cups of Kix over a parchment lined rimmed pan.
- Cook the brown sugar, butter and salt together over the stove for 5 minutes.
- Add a little vanilla
- Pour buttery hot sugar mixture over the cereal and coat it the best you can
- Bake for 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle chocolate over hot candy, let it soften, spread it gently.
- Lastly, refrigerate to set the chocolate topping.
The recipe, which is adapted from similar versions in old cookbooks and Serious Eats, can be halved and baked in an 8-inch pan if you just want a small batch. If halving, you'll most likely need to shorten the brown sugar and butter cook time and use a very small saucepan.
Other Kix Recipes
If you would prefer to incorporate some peanut butter into your Kix recipe, here's another fun one -- Weird But Delicious Kix Cookies.
Recipe
Chocolate Kix Toffee Bark
Ingredients
- 3 cups Kix cereal
- 1 cup unsalted butter (228 grams)
- 1 cup light brown sugar (200 grams)
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 to 1½ cups semisweet chocolate chips or chopped semisweet chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a large rimmed sheet pan with parchment paper and spread cereal evenly over it.
- Put the butter in a medium size saucepan and melt it over medium heat.
- Add the brown sugar and salt, stirring to combine. Cook for about 5 minutes or just until mixture is dark brown and has begun to bubble,
- Remove from heat, stir in the vanilla, then drizzle the hot mixture over the cereal, spreading as evenly as you can with a scraper.
- Bake for only about 5 minutes, then remove from oven and sprinkle chocolate over the top. Let the chocolate soften for about 5 minutes, then use a spatula to spread it over the candy.
- If desired, sprinkle lightly with extra sea salt. Chill to set the chocolate, then break into large chunks.
Sue says
I haven't thought about Kix in years! This looks like a fun way to use them!
Sonya says
Of course I'd incorporate peanut butter any time that's an option 🙂